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#DreamTeam linky – 16th April 2023
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#DreamTeam linky – 16th April 2023

April 16, 2023

Hello and welcome to the #DreamTeam linky! A fab place to share your writing, read what others have been up to, and share a bit of blog love! Come join us…

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We hope you’ve all had a fab Easter break and way too much chocolate 🙂 We left over bits of chocolate have found their way into a new one, and even quicker fudge recipe that I’ve tried out. I’m linking it up to the #DreamTeam. Let me know what you think!

Cadbury's mini egg fudge recipe

Thank you to everyone who is joining in with our little community. Please

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How protected are BC homeowners when home renovation projects go sideways? – BC
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How protected are BC homeowners when home renovation projects go sideways? – BC

Months after he hired a contractor to renovate his home, Scott Leathem says he’s still dealing with numerous deficiencies. “You’re getting screwed by the people that you hired for lack of a better term,” Leathem said.

How protected are BC homeowners when home renovation projects go sideways? – BC

Back in May 2020, the Pitt Meadows resident says he’s hired a contractor to renovate his home. He said he was quoted about $100,000 and told it would take seven weeks to complete. Leathem says he put down $50,000 upfront and the demolition started immediately but eventually came to a standstill.

“It was supply chain issues, we couldn’t find anything, everybody was short-staffed. Everything

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#DreamTeam linky – 12th February 2023
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#DreamTeam linky – 12th February 2023

February 12, 2023

Hello and welcome. You’ve popped into the #DreamTeam linky for bloggers- a fab place to share your writing, read what others have been up to, and share a bit of blog love! Come join us…

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Due to unforeseen circumstances (the little one broke her leg…. in two places… at school ekk!!!), the #DreamTeam was down last week. #sorry. We are back though, and I can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to.

This week I’m linking up with a fab event happening in South Bank, London this February half term. If you are around

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#DreamTeam linky – 15th January 2023
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#DreamTeam linky – 15th January 2023

January 15, 2023

A warm welcome to the #DreamTeam linky for bloggers- a fab place to share your writing, read what others have been up to, and share a bit of blog love! Happy New Year everyone!!!

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It’s never too late to shout Happy New Year, right? How is everyone doing? I’m afraid I have eaten way too many chocolates and I’m ready to burst out my jeans. *Must try not to do that next year – especially as I got a treadmill for Christmas. Ekk!!!

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This week I’m linking up with our news loft conversion

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Sunlight lofts review – choosing a loft company to build your loft conversion
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Sunlight lofts review – choosing a loft company to build your loft conversion

January 15, 2023

Choosing a loft company to build your loft conversion is a big deal. I mean, a really, really BIG deal. It was probably the most nail-biting moment for me of the whole process, following our fair share of ekkk moments with building works in the past – remember when our floor dropped upstairs? It wasn’t a pretty sight, that’s for sure! So, choosing a loft company was the biggest leap of faith. Here’s how we chose Sunlight lofts to build our loft conversion – which was most definitely the best decision we made!

Sunlight lofts review – choosing a loft company to build your loft conversion

Choosing a loft company

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East Vancouver home under renovation burns down after fire
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East Vancouver home under renovation burns down after fire

Ten residents were displaced and a cat rescued in the Strathcona neighborhood fire.

East Vancouver home under renovation burns down after fire
Firefighters at the site of an early morning fire in the 700-block Keefer Street in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighborhood. Photo by Nick Procaylo

A 120-year-old house in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighborhood has burned to the ground, damaging two other properties and forcing several residents out of their homes.

Vancouver firefighters responded to the blaze at 743 Keefer Street, between Heatley and Hawks Avenues, at around

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Make Your Personal Whirlig Toy
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Make Your Personal Whirlig Toy

What’s a Whirligig Toy?

The phrase whirligig derives from two Center English phrases: whirlen (to whirl) and gigg (prime), or actually “to whirl a prime”. So the gist of the whirligig toy then is principally to make use of a scientific power (in our case we create it) to get the factor whirling after which we search to maintain it going.

That is all fairly fancy to say a disk on a string. This straightforward pleasure of each making and enjoying with whirligigs supplied hours of leisure for the youngsters of early America and nonetheless does immediately.

Native American whirligig

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All the time Had ‘Open Ears for Folks in Want’
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All the time Had ‘Open Ears for Folks in Want’

All the time Had ‘Open Ears for Folks in Want’

King Charles III, Maximilian, Margrave of Baden

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King Charles III’s first cousin, Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, has died. He was 89.

On Thursday, the Home of Baden introduced that Margrave Maximilian Andreas Markgraf von Baden, who glided by Max, died at Salem Citadel in Germany. Max’s mom was Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, the elder sister of Prince Philip, making him first cousins ​​with King Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward.

“Since 1963, Max Margrave of Baden was head of the home on the head

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